Student money: High-flying career never materialized — but debt remains

Readers blog about their pursuit of higher education in response to the Financial Post’s series of stories on student debt:

I graduated with $130,000 in student loans to become a pilot.

Every person that was involved with the process said oh yeah you will make $200,000 a year. I am now working for an airline as a pilot making $20,000 a year.

I cannot get a loan for a house, car or even a credit card due to my student loans. I will never be able to afford kids and owning a house is out of the question.

I am only one of thousands of pilots in this condition. My fiancee also is a pilot with about the same amount in loans and can’t even find a job flying.

If I get a credit based loan for a bad business and it goes under it’s wiped out, but I get a credit based student loan that turns out I was lied to about the salary and ability to find a job I’m stuck with it forever. Student aren’t wanting to just dump their loans in bankruptcy.

They are just wanting fair treatment in case there is no other option, and I believe this is exactly what it says about bankruptcy in the constitution.